2017 San Diego wildfire increased pediatric ER visits for breathing problems
Credit: ATS Jan. 6, 2020--A small wildfire in San Diego County in 2017 resulted in a big uptick in children visiting the emergency room for...
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Laser pulse creates frequency doubling in amorphous dielectric material
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Researchers have demonstrated a new all-optical technique for creating robust second-order nonlinear effects in materials that don't normally support them....
Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, study suggests
Credit: James H. Barrett The mysterious disappearance of Greenland's Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been down to the overexploitation of walrus...
Insufficient home care the biggest challenge to overcome after release from hospital
Ontario patients and caregivers consistently prioritized insufficient publicly funded home care services as the gap in the health system that most needed to be addressedCredit:...
Task force recommends changes to increase African-American physics and astronomy students
Report focuses on five factors, includes recommendations for changeCredit: AIP WASHINGTON, January 5, 2020 -- Due to long-term and systemic issues leading to the consistent...
Illegal hunting and bushmeat trade threatens biodiversity and wildlife of Angola
Credit: Francisco Maiato P. Gonçalves Hunting wild animals has been practised by humans for millions of years; however, the extraction of wildlife for subsistence and...
Sublimation, not melting: Graphene surprises researchers again
Credit: MIPT Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Institute for High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have...
University startups championing UK innovation at the world’s largest tech show
Tech entrepreneurs from the University of Southampton will unveil pioneering research based tech products in prosthetics design, cybersecurity and quantum technology at CES 2020Credit: University...
Brassica crops best for crop rotation and soil health in potato production systems
Credit: Robert Larkin Crop rotation is vital to any crop production system. Rotating crops maintains crop productivity and soil health by replenishing organic matter, nutrients,...
MDI Biological Laboratory to expand innovative data literacy program
Grant will support study of seasonal variations of arsenic in well waterJane E. Disney, Ph.D., is the leader of the innovative SEPA (Science Education Partnership...
The case of the elusive Majorana: The so-called ‘angel particle’ is still a mystery
Credit: Cui-zu Chang, Penn State A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion--the chiral Majorana fermion, referred to as the...
Water lily genome expands picture of the early evolution of flowering plants
Credit: Liangsheng Zhang The newly reported genome sequence of a water lily sheds light on the early evolution of angiosperms, the group of all flowering...
Clusters of gold atoms form peculiar pyramidal shape
Credit: KU Leuven Clusters composed of a few atoms tend to be spherical. They are usually organized in shells of atoms around a central atom....
Microbes from humics lakes produced omega-3 fatty acids from micropla
Researchers used carbon isotope labeling to follow the fate of polyethylene in the food chainCredit: The University of Jyväskylä Increasing abundance of plastic waste has...
Supercharging tomorrow: Monash develops world’s most efficient lithium-sulfur battery
Credit: Monash University Monash University researchers have developed the world's most efficient lithium-sulphur battery, capable of powering a smartphone for five continuous days. Prototype cells...
